Install questions with RAID

Alex mysqlstudent at gmail.com
Tue Aug 9 14:50:19 UTC 2011


Hi,

> Grub can boot from md device as long as it's a raid 1 device.
> Simply create two partitions on each drive: a 500 MB md autodetect and a XXX
> GB raid autodetect.
> Use the first partition on each drive to create a 500 MB raid 1 device
> containing /boot and use the second partition on each drive to create the
> raid 5 device.
>
> If the first drive dies, at most you will have use grub to rebuild the MBR
> on the new first drive.

Yes, but I also meant to point out that I've since learned that the
upgrade doesn't support it, as I found out when I tried to upgrade a
system from fc14 to fc15.

Thanks for all your help.

Thanks,
Alex


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